Rice - Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing

Dedicated to John Perkins of Mississippi and Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala of Uganda, everyday saints who have shown us the way

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The Resources for Reconciliation Book Series

partnership between InterVarsity Press and the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, Resources for Reconciliation books address what it means to pursue hope in areas of brokenness, including the family, the city, the poor, the disabled, Christianity and Islam, racial and ethnic divisions, violent conflicts and the environment. The series seeks to offer a fresh and distinctive vision for reconciliation as God's mission and a journey toward God's new creation in Christ. Each book is authored by two leading voices, one in the field of practice or grassroots experience, the other from the academy. Each book is grounded in the biblical story, engages stories and places of pain and hope, and seeks to help readers to live faithfully -a rich mix of theology, context and practice.

This book series was born out of the mission of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation: Advancing God's mission of reconciliation in a divided world by cultivating new leaders, communicating wisdom and hope, and connecting in outreach to strengthen leadership. A divided world needs people with the vision, spiritual maturity and daily skills integral to reconciliation. The church needs fresh resources -a mix of biblical vision, skills in social and historical analysis, and practical gifts of spirituality and social leadership in order to pursue reconciliation in real places, from congregations to communities.

The ministry of reconciliation is not reserved for experts. It is the core of God's mission and an everyday call of the Christian life. These books are written to equip and stimulate God's people to be more faithful ambassadors of reconciliation in a fractured world.

For more information, email the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation at reconciliation@div.duke.edu, or visit our website: .

Emmanuel Katongole

Chris Rice

Center codirectors and series editors

econciling All Things. It's a pretty preposterous title for a book. Especially one as short as this. If the title is ambitious, it is because this book arises out of our deep restlessness about what it means to live faithfully in a broken and divided world.

One of us is American. One of us is African. One is Protestant, one Catholic. One is a practitioner, one a theologian. Yet our journeys cross and defy easy categories, borders and loyalties. We find ourselves bound together as restless pilgrims in search of something better in a divided world.

The restlessness and convictions of this book grow out of three pilgrim journeys.

For me (Chris), even after seven years in Durham, North Carolina, I still feel like a stranger in unfamiliar territory. I am as white and American as most of my dear friends at Blacknall Presbyterian Church. My children play in soccer leagues and ride horses. We live in a quiet and stable urban neighborhood. Trained at Duke Divinity School, where I now serve, I can talk the talk of the academic world.